Le mot anglais du jour

shower

douche

Définitions

anglais > français
shower
1. n. Douche.
The shower needs to be cleaned.
I didn't have a chance to take a shower this morning.
2. n. (Météo) Averse ; giboulée.
Snow shower : chute de neige.
I love these light spring showers.
When the wall caved in, a shower of dust covered them.
The April showers : les giboulées de mars.
3. n. (Figuré) Pluie (de confettis, de coups,...).
4. n. (Jonglage) Douche.
5. n. (Étas-Unis, Canada) Célébration où l'on amène des cadeaux en l'honneur d'une future maman (baby shower) ou d'une future mariée (bridal shower) ; réception-cadeaux (Canada).
6. v. Se doucher.
I'm going to shower now.
7. v. (Figuré) ...
The bride's uncle showered them with gifts.
L'oncle de la mariée leur a offert une pluie de cadeaux.
anglais > anglais
shower
1. n. A brief fall of precipitation.
Today there will be frequent showers and some sunny spells.
2. n. A device for bathing by which water is made to fall on the body from a height, either from a tank or by the action of a pump.
3. n. An instance of using of this device in order to bathe oneself.
I′m going to have a shower. (UK, Australia)
I′m going to take a shower. (especially US)
4. n. A quantity of something that has characteristics of a rain shower.
a shower of sparks; a meteor shower; a Gatorade shower
5. n. A party associated with a significant event in a person's life, at which the person usually receives gifts.
Would male strippers be appropriate for the divorce shower?
Her church group has planned an adoption shower.
6. n. A bridal shower.
The shower will be held at the home of the bridesmaid.
7. n. A baby shower.
Her friends are throwing her a shower after her mom leaves.
8. n. (obsolete) A battle, an attack; conflict.
9. n. (chiefly Irish, UK, Australia, pejorative) A shower of shit.
10. n. (chiefly Irish, euphemistic, pejorative, with of and an invective) Used as an intensifying pluralizer or intensifier
11. v. (followed by with) To spray with (a specified liquid).
12. v. To bathe using a shower.
13. v. To bestow liberally, to give or distribute in abundance
14. v. (intransitive) To rain in a shower; to cascade down.
15. n. One who shows.
16. n. some object or activity that is shown in a contest
Example: That calf is going to be a great shower at the fair this year
17. n. (slang) A man whose penis appears roughly full size both when flaccid and when erect.
français > anglais
douche
1. n-f. shower
2. n-f. (juggling) shower